The Complete Guide to Serverless Computing

The basics of a severless architecture and its trajectory in the market

Scott Carey
January 2, 2019

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Serverless computing is a cloud computing methodology which appears to be gaining great momentum in the market, particularly among Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, as the vendor is extremely bullish on the architecture.

In short, serverless computing is the idea of further abstracting infrastructure concerns away from developer’s lives, helping them focus on their applications and not provisioning or maintaining servers. It relies on stateless functions to execute code automatically in the cloud and allows the end user to only pay for the compute they use.

AWS pioneered serverless with its Lambda function-as-a-service offering back in 2014, but that element has since been replicated by all the other major cloud platforms, with Google Cloud Functions, Microsoft Azure Functions, IBM/Apache’s OpenWhisk, and Oracle Cloud Fn.

This guide will focus on serverless from a predominantly AWS lens, primarily because they are the vendor most willing to talk about it and, most importantly for us, to put actual customer stories out into the wild. Here we run through the basics of a serverless architecture, its trajectory in the market and a case study from a very early adopter.

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